Wednesday, May 07, 2014

New class: Beginners' contemporary with Drosia Triantaki

We have a new class added in our schedule -a new beginners contemporary class every Tuesday at 18.00-19.30. The class begun yesterday, May 6 and it was jam packed! It is instructed by Drosia Triantaki and addresses people with little or no previous experience in contemporary dance.

Drosia is one of our staff teachers, also teaching an intermediate contemporary class and a contemporary ballet class. She is a dancer and choreographer, specialized in
dancetheater, contemporary dance and performing arts’ kinesiology. She
has graduated from the National Dance School of Greece and from Folkwang
Universität Der Künst (Essen-Germany), where she acquired her master
degree in Pina Bausch dancetheater.

She received a certificate with Merit in
the field of Advanced Contemporary Dance Techniques and the Merce
Cunningham Technique, form The Space, Scottish School of Contemporary
Dance Dundee (Scotland). She attended workshops with Nina Dipla, Jeremy
Nelson and Akram Khan. She has received a 1st prize for
contemporary dance form Hellas Dance Festival and a 3rd price in the
National Dance Competition of Athens.

She founded the company die Wolke. She
worked as a dancer with the companies Sinequanon, dancetheater of the National Theater of Northern Greece, Fysalida, the Music Hall
of Thessaloniki and with M. Siezckarek, B.J. Riepe, Chikako Kaido, R.
Leoni, S. Brinkman.

She has collaborated as a dance teacher
with various schools in Thessaloniki and she teaches at KINOUME studio since 2012.

You can find information and pictures from her class after the jump.

Drosia's contemporary dance class uses elements of Kurt Joss technique
through the perspective of Pina Bausch, as well as elements of release
technique through the personal point of view of the instructor. Emphasis
is given to the use of breathing and its relation with movement and its
different qualities. Basic movement instructions are given as the base
for movement improvisation. The goal of the class is to create an
‘expressive’ body, as meant in dancetheater. Music is an important part
of the class –it is studied in aspects of rhythm and style.

As evidenced in the photos, music, lighting and space create a very atmospheric mood in her classes!